I was flipping through the pictures from this week’s harvests and there weren’t too many. Guess I spent more time picking wild blueberries than harvesting from the garden. I picked a couple pickling cucumbers that were getting too big. Only had two though, so I put them in a Ziploc bag in the […]

This week’s harvest included a few firsts: our first ripe tomato of the year, our first garlic harvest ever, and our first ripe cherries ever! I am amazed we have any tomatoes at all. Not only because they are difficult to grow around here because of all our rain and lack of sunlight, […]

This is the first year we started all our plants for the garden from seeds – flowers, veggies and even our herbs. The herbs have been doing so good. I have most of them in pots on the deck. Having them close to the front door makes it more likely we will run out and pick […]

This week’s garden harvest was the best yet – 28 pounds! So now our yearly total is up to 87 pounds. Awesome! I am amazed all the time by the garden and how these wonderful plants develop from tiny seeds. I’m sure Rod gets tired of me going on and on about what I find […]

Hi, we are Rod and Michelle from Southeast Alaska. We homestead in our backyard with the goal of producing as much of our food as we can. We happily share what we are doing so we may all become more self reliant!